Steamship ticket



Jan.'27, 1931. s, VQELCKER 1,790,033

STEAMSHIP TICKET Filed July 8, 1927 SSheets-Sheet l IN l/E IV TOR l5 S ATTORNEY 'Jan. 27, 1931. c. s. VOELCKER STEAMSHIP TICKET Filed July 8 1927 5 Sheets-Sheet 2 Ca r/ 5- l/oe/cker HIS A TTOR/VE Y Jan. 27, 1931. c. SVOEL'CKER STEAMSHIP TICKET Filed July 8, 1927 5 Sheets-Sheet 3 INVENTOR Carlv 5. Moe/alt /s ATTORNEY Jan. 27; 1931. c. s. VOELCKER 1,790,033

STEAMSHIP TICKET Filed July 8, 1927 5 Sheets-Sheet 4 N N EN I INVENTORQ Carl 5. Voe/c/rer Br 71 IIIIIJIIIIIIIIIlI/WIII/IiIIIIIIIIIII/IIII HIS ATTORNEY Jan. 27, 1931. c. s. VOELCKER STEAMSHIP TICKET Filed Jui 8, 1927 S SheetS-Sheet 5 IN VE N TOR Carl 5. Vae/c/rer Hi5 ATTORNEY PatentedJan. 27, 19 31 UNITED ST SI A OFF CE ems. voncxaa, or raooxnnr, new YORK s'rmsm rrcxn'r Y I Application fled m a, 1927. Serial in. 204,201.

I The invention relates to steamship tickets and has for its object to provide a ticket in ing as the name of the passenger or passenmust be supplied in numerous places. The

various shi gers, destination, cabin and berth numbers and various other information and data ticket is b and inconvenient to handle both for the passenger and officers on the dock and ship. The object of the present invention is to overcome these difliculties and provide a steamship ticket that can be'filled out with a minimum amount of work'and one that is compact and easy to handle after it has been issued.

The invention contemplates a plurality of booklets all of which are secured by one of their leaves in a binder. After the ticket has been made out the booklet may readily be removed from the binder and issued to the assenger. Two of the leaves of the boo et are removed by the agent making out the ticket and one is secured to the binder where it acts as the agents record and the other is forwarded to the ofiice of the steamboo et are removed at different times by ofiices and one leaf which is not remova 1e remains in the booklet and acts. as the passen ers receipt or record.

Other objects an advantages will become apparent as this specification proceeds, a preferred form of the invention bein described. Referrinfg to the drawings orma part thereo in a - g. 1 1s a perspective view of the complete binder or book of tickets, closed,

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the book with the cover opened,

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one booklet or ticket, closed,

pa es,

tion broken out for economy of space,

shi ridcompany. The remaining leaves of the The foregoin arrangements of Fi 4 to 9 are perspective views of the boo et or ticket opened at the various taken at the binding portion,

Fig.11 is an enlarged detail sectional view of one of the booklets or-tickets removed from the binder and having its intermediate por- Fig. 12 1s a perspective view of an alternate construction, showing a complete binder or book with .its cover opened; and

Fig. 13 is an enlarged detail sectional view of the form shown in Fig. 12.

Referring to Figs. 1 to 11 of the drawings the reference numeral 15 designates the binder which may be of any desired form or construction. On the back of one of the covers of, the binder a list of instruc- I0 is enlarged detail sectional view of the complete binder or book of tickets tions 16 may be imprinted and a clip 17 of any approved form may be secured to the cover. The purpose of the clip will be described hereinafter.

Each ticket comprises a booklet 18 as illustrated particularly in Fig. 3. Each booklet has a front cover 19 rear cover 20 and a plurality of leaves. The outside of the front cover may bear the name of the steamship line, class of passage and the number of the ticket. All of the leaves bear a corresponding ticket number to the outer cover. The inside of the covers ma have the contract under which the ticket is sold imprinted thereon. The outside of the rear cover may be used for any suitable purpose such as imprinting thereon a list or the various ofiices of the steamship line in different cities or countries.

printed matter may be wi ely varied.

The first sheet 21 of the booklet (see Fig. 4) carries information required of theipassengers hyskhe Government. This information must be supplied and, the sheet filled out pgior to the passenger embarlc'ng on the at and for that reason is preferably the first sheet in the booklet although this ma be varied. When presented at the gangpla of the ship the collector in charge tears this sheet from the booklet along the line of the This leaf is bound in the booklet along perforations 22 and it is then forwarded to the proper government ofice. The back of this sheet may carly the necessary mstructions as to how to 1 out properly the front part.

The second sheet 23 of the booklet (see Fig.

5) might be termed the ticket proper and 1s perforated at 24 so that it may be readily re- .moved at the proper time. This sheet has v the booklet and its covers which the passenwhite paper it is the duplicate of sheet 23.

' 7, is perforated at 27 and is intended to be similar to that of ger may retain for his records. 'With the exception of the letter in the u per left hand corner, the words Passengers receipt, and the fact that this sheet is printed on plain The backs of sheets 23 and 25 may be utilized for printing thereon conditions under which the ticket has been sold.

The next leaf or sheet 26'as shown in Fig.

collected on theboat by the purser or his representative. The l'illtllg on this sheet is eets 3 and 25 except for the letter and the words To the purser and itmight be printed on plain paper with a -bluish tint.

The following sheet in the booklet (see Fig. 8) is marked 28 and is perforated at29 for the purpose of being easilyremoved. This sheet might be printed on paper of a pinkish tint and bears the letter B and the word Advice. Otherwise the printing is similar to the sheets previously described. However in the lower left hand corner some extra lines may be added for putting in the amounts of the agents commission for selling the ticket and the net amount remitted to the company. This sheet is removed from the booklet by the agent after the ticket has been .made out and'before the booklet has been turned over to the purchaser. He immediately forwards this sheet with the amount .paid for the ticket, less his commission, to

the ofiice of the steamship company.

The last sheet 30 which is perforated at 31 I v is the agents stub. This ticket which may be printed on yellow paper is similar in all respects to sheet 28, except for the letter A and words Agents stub. This sheet has two holes. 32 and after it has been torn out of the booklet by the agent it is placed on the clip or fasteners?! on the cover of the mean binder. In this way it is preserved and acts as the. agents record.

The rear covers 20 of the booklet-are pros vided with extensions. 33 which are secured in the binder as illustrated in Fig. 10. These extensions 33 are perforated at 34 so that after the ticket has been made out it may be and readily removed from the binder.

easil v While perforations have been spoken of in numerous places throughout the specifica tion it is desired to call attention to the fact that any means that maybe utilized to weaken thesheets so that they may readil be removed from the hinder or the boo let may be used instead of the erforations. Likewise with the color .of t e difierent$ sheets, they may be of any desired color or all of one color and they may be arranged in any desired order.

A suflicient number of carbon sheets .36

are secured in the binder under the booklets inany appropriate manner. In starting a new book or binder the agent-pulls the carbons out and inserts them between the leaves of the first booklet. He is then ready to make out the first ticket.

From the foregoin it is thought that it may readily be seen t at a very simple and efficient-method is thus provided for making out the tickets. The lar er steamship com- 5 panics have a vast num r of agents scattered throughout the country. The booklets are bound up in binders containing ten, twenty or any desired number and are forwarded to the agents. The tickets brain in such concise form the agent may easily p ace the com lete binder containing ten or twenty tickets in his pocket, if he desires to o out of his office and call on a person to ma 'e out their tickets. Instead of havinga large sheet s of paper to spread out and a number of tickets to duplicate all he has to do is fill out the Government information sli and write out one ticket with the carbons in the booklet to takecare of the remainin tears the booklet from the bin er, removes the last two sheets of which he retains one and forwards the other to the company, and then turns the booklet over to the purchaser.

The passenger is then provided with a ticket that is exceedingly convenient to use. The ticket is of such size that it may readily be folded and placed in a ladys purse. When the passenger oards the ship it is a simple matter for the ofiicer in charge at the gangplank to tear out the first two leaves instead of having to unfold a large sheet and remove part of it. The records are all kept in a simple manner and opportunities for errors or mistakes are greatly lessened. In the form shown in Figs. 12 and 13th booklets are retained in the binder b extensions 40 from the sheets 30. This is t e sheet that acts as the agents record and as it is torn off along the perforation 31, the book sheets. He

let is removed from the binder and the sheet remains in the'binder. There are no perforations adjacent the bindin binder such as the perforations 34 in the extension 33. In this form the clips or fasten ers17 may be eliminated and there is no probabili of the sheets becoming lost or mis- Otherwise the form illustrated in la 12 and '13 is similar in all respects to.

that of the preceding figures.

While a has been ustrated and described it is deprising a binder and a plurality of booklets each booklet hating a plurality of separate let from the binder.

t .cover sheets being secure in said binder at rforatlons 1n said siredto call attention to the fact that numerous chan s may be made in form and detail without eparting from the spirit'of the invention or the scope of the appended claims. I

I claim: V 1. An article of the kind described, comsheets and cover sheets bound together, one of said cover sheetsbeing secured in said binder at its free end and a line of perfora-f tions in said cover sheet upon which it ma be tornwhen it is desired to remove the book- 2. An article of the kind described;

klet having a and cover sheets ound to ether, one of .said

its free end, a. line of cover sheet upon which 1t may be torn when it is desired to" remove the booklet from the binder, andspacers' between certain of Suecessive binding margins of said cover sheets; I

whereof I aflix my signature.

'Intestimon I y CARL S. VOELCKER.

g portion of the referred form of the invention- COm- , Basing a binder, a lurality of booklets, each urality of separate sheets 

